That is the coronavirus outbreak and relations with turkey and russia at the Atlantic Council in washington, d. C. From earlier this month, this is about 90 minutes. The director of the future initiative here at the Atlantic Council. And its really my pleasure to host today the minister of state for European Affairs of the french republic for a conversation about france, europe, and the transatlantic relation. As you know, here at the Atlantic Council, we value european allies, we value u. S. Engagement, and the future of the initiative is to precisely make the case that the European Union is a key and critical Strategic Partner of the United States. Part of our role is to discipline the developments within the European Union and to engage policy makers and create a bridge and dialogue between policy makers of the United States and europe, especially in times of great power coalition. President macron in france has laid out ambitious agenda for engagement of partners like russia, refor
Council we value european allies and valued u. S. Engagement in the transatlantic relationship and the initiative is precisely to make the case that the European Union is a key, critical Strategic Partner of the United States. Part of our role is to explain the developments within the European Union and to engage policymakers and great bridge between policymakers United States and europe especially in times of Great Power Competition for as you know president macron of france is laid out an ambitious agenda for reform of the European Union for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, reforming and stepping up European Defense integration as well as changing enlargement policy. These are issues that are think will discuss today with the minister. Let me first turn to start with initial remarks and then we will open to a conversation with all of you and we want this to be as interactive as possible. Thank you very much. [applause] good afternoon. Thank you for hosting
A case where do you have International Attention and interest and its not just us parliamentarians who are observing this case its the. Parliamentary assembly of the council of europe the Human Rights Commission of the council of europe there are so many parliamentarians worldwide why are very concerned about this case and i really dont understand to be frank whats going on in the British Parliament with my colleagues that they dont have there was not one british politician with you know and i mean if they are so secure and so secure about the case that the rule of law is accepted and the conditions are ok with the rule of law why they dont just come and see whats going on in the court room ok i mean i just dont like them i invite the candidate who has got running for the leadership of the labor party come with me as a calm rate and see whats going on in the court room well it again can rains in may of course depending on the health of Julian Assange the magistrate vanessa borate. Shes
Im not sure that they were going underground as the u. K. E. U. Trade talks begin today to determine a post brics it future while they do nation media continues to look away from the case of arbitrarily detained julia songe which may determine the end of free speech in britain coming up on the show deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 document calls on labor leadership candidate gets accused of persecution of Julian Assange to see for himself in court what the u. N. Calls torture and arbitrary detention of the founder of wiki leaks plus forget the coronavirus will breaks it all doubts on multinational Chemical Companies catalyze mass insect extinction all this more coming up in todays going underground but 1st what was it actually like to sit in a london Court Last Week watching an alleged travesty of justice as arbitrarily detained and tortured wiki leaks founder Julian Assange fought for his freedom one International Observer was the deputy leader of the left par
Observers in the Public Gallery for observers they are just 24. 00 seats 6 for the family members and 18 for International Observers and we always have to queue there and wait for about 2 hours just to make sure that we can really go and follow the case in the court room and not in the media and next room where you cannot listen we cannot hear something from the courtroom and in our other way its terrible too because to see how the conditions are which julian is facing i mean he is a really gentle human journalist who havent had to done a crime and hes treated like a top terrorist behind behind a bulletproof glasses. In the back of the court of the court which is just because of him and he cannot follow the court and he cannot hear the court even just hardly he can hear and listen whats going on and i think these conditions are not adequate for a state which is saying the rule of law is totally accepted well he did commit a crime a minor bail violation and the person who is about to pe